*Trump administration at "war" with mRNA technology: scientists alarmed vaccine skeptics could kill research.*
mRNA vaccines are the target of persistent disinformation along many fronts. Some disinformation exaggerates the significance of side effects that happen a small fraction of the time and generally cause no permanent harm. Others harp on thousands of people go had serious side effects but neglect to compare those with the millions of lives the vaccines saved.
Amazon "echo" devices should be called "tattle" because they tell Amazon what they hear.
* EPA sets up email address where "regulated community" can request exemption to evade air pollution rules.*
This is to speed the billionaires' ultimate sabotage project — to make the survival of civilization outside their realms impossible.
Two faculty of Harvard's Middle Eastern Studies department have suddenly "departed", and it is reported that they were fired except that the university doesn't want to admit that.
The Social Security Administration has 60 million lines of COBOL code and has long planned to migrate that very slowly and carefully into a more modern programming language. It would take years. But now the wrecking crew (LOGE, *) wants to do it in a few months.
It will surely have many new bugs. But instead of having humans do it, they plan to use bullshit generators to write the new code.
That will guarantee plenty of absurd mistakes that humans wouldn't make.
What could make the situation worse than that? The SSA could stop answering the phones, and eliminate most of the human beings to complain to.
Hmm, that's what they just did. Looks like someone is planning to make the Social Security system fail disastrously.
* LOGE = Lots of Grief, Evisceration
The magats rebuke the Smithsonian Institution for presenting modern scientists' and scholars' ideas of science and history, instead of the old-fashioned superstitions and prejudices they replaced.
*Trump administration at "war" with mRNA technology: scientists alarmed vaccine skeptics could kill research.*
mRNA vaccines are the target of persistent disinformation along many fronts. Some disinformation exaggerates the significance of side effects that happen a small fraction of the time and generally cause no permanent harm. Others harp on thousands of people go had serious side effects but neglect to compare those with the millions of lives the vaccines saved.
Universities that hope to survive through eager submission to state repression will find themselves reduced to even more abject subservience,
US citizens: call on banks to stop fueling destruction of the Amazon forest.
*Despite the diversity of pro-Palestinian demonstrators, [deportation thugs] go after non-white visa and scholarship holders "to create a wedge in solidarity".*
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There are two different goals of Chess AI: To figure out what is objectively the very best move in each situation, and to figure out what is, for me as a human, the best way to play in each situation. And possibly explain why. The explanations part I have no good ideas for short of doing an extraordinary amount of manual work to make a training set but the others can be done in a fairly automated manner.
(As with all AI posts everything I say here is speculative, may be wrong, and may be reinventing known techniques, but has reasonable justifications about why it might be a good idea.)
First a controversial high level opinion which saves a whole lot of computational power: There is zero reason to try to train an AI on deep evaluations of positions. Alpha-beta pruning works equally well for all evaluation algorithms. Tactics are tactics. What training should do is optimize for immediate accuracy on a zero node eval. What deep evaluation is good for is generating more accurate numbers to go into the training data. For a real engine you as want switching information to say which moves should be evaluated more deeply by the alpha-beta pruner. For that information I’m going to assume that when doing a deep alpha-beta search you can get information about how critical each branch is and that can be used as a training set. I’m going to hand wave and assume that there’s a reasonable way of making that be the output of an alpha-beta search even though I don’t know how to do it.
Switching gears for a moment, there’s something I really want but doesn’t seem to exist: An evaluation function which doesn’t say what the best move for a godlike computer program is, but one which says what’s the best practical move for me, a human being, to make in this situation. Thankfully that can be generated straightforwardly if you have the right data set. Specifically, you need a huge corpus of games played by humans and the ratings of the players involved. You then train an AI with input of the ratings of the players and the current position and it returns probability of win/loss/draw. This is something people would pay real money for access to and can be generated from an otherwise fairly worthless corpus of human games. You could even get fancy and customize it a bit to a particular player’s style if you have enough games from them, but that’s a bit tricky because each human generates very few games and you’d have to somehow relate them to other players by style to get any real signal.
Back to making not a human player but a godlike player. Let’s say you’re making something like Leela, with lots of volunteer computers running tasks to improve it. As is often the case with these sorts of things the bottleneck seems to be bandwidth. To improve a model you need to send a copy of it to all the workers, have them locally generate suggested improvements to all the weights, then send those back. That requires a complete upload and download of the model from each worker. Bandwidth costs can be reduced either by making generations take longer or by making the model smaller. My guess is that biasing more towards making the model smaller is likely to get better results due to the dramatically improved training and lower computational overhead and hence deeper searches when using it in practice.
To make suggestions on how to improve a model a worker does as follows: First, they download the last model. Then they generate a self-play game with it. After each move of the game they take the evaluation which the deeper look-ahead gave and train the no look-ahead eval against that to update their suggestions for weight updates. Once it’s time for the next generation they upload all their suggested updates to the central server which sums all the weight updates suggestions (possibly weighting them by the amount of games which went into them) and uses that for the next generation model.
This approach shows how chess is in some sense an ‘easy’ problem for AI because you don’t need training data for it. You can generate all the training data you want out of thin air on an as needed basis.
Obviously there are security issues here if any of the workers are adversarial but I’m not sure what the best way to deal with those is.
I left the tv idle while I went to the other room to play with my dog. After about a half an hour, I started hearing Kristi Noem praising Trump and telling immigrants to get out of America, over and over.
I went in to check, and caught this video looping 3 more times before it went back to the nature clips.
This TV will be out of my house by the end of the week. Fucking dystopian bullshit company.
Also Vizio: "Did we mention these unhinged fascist rants are FREE?"®™
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"They're gross, they're offensive and kids on the road see them, so why wouldn't the police get a call [saying], 'That offends me. Pull it off the truck.' Because now this bill will allow it."
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And yet, because of Apple's cowardly prudishness, somehow when I type motherdkxije it is of not hello at all
We went to the moon. We used to be a society.
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He previously worked as a systems engineer at defense contractor Raytheon, led a Y combinator-backed tech company, and was a partner for a real estate fund. [...]
"Thrilled to share my own personal project in this private channel of Chads!" [...]
Something smells off to fans of the bar, as Parrott also plans to "kickstart a token ecosystem" named ToronadoCash. In the VC chat group, he asks for investors to form a $250,000 "liquidity pool," which he describes as "a rare insider opportunity for core team & friends."
"I think it's probably antithetic to the impression I had of the bar," said a source with knowledge of the deal. "It's emblematic of a larger problem in San Francisco: tech bros coming in and buying a 40-year-old institution and making a coin out of it and all that stuff." [...]
Parrott kept his plans for the bar close to the chest. But a recent post on his Twitter account offers a glimpse of his feelings about the takeover of beloved institutions by private investors:
"The US federal closure of many scientific and academic institutions, though a travesty, is a phenomenal business opportunity for privatizing and decentralizing valuable public goods and services."
(Sorry, I meant "Orion Parrott Dot Eth".)
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When you sign up for our Patreon, we mail you a physical card. The welcome message says "Your membership card is active once you have it in your hands. You must bring the card with you and show it at the door."
And now Patreon has fucked that all up by adding a new thing at the bottom that says "Save membership card" below it! What the absolute fuck is this!! So now people who have just signed up think, "That's weird, here's my membership card, I guess I just download that and I'm good to go?" No. That is not how this works. That is not how any of this works.
I assume there is no way to make this new nonsense go away and stop confusing people?
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Planet Debian upstream is hosted by Branchable.